CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA - CEMETERIES – Young’s Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Young’s graveyard:
                  1937 July 12
                  Research made by Dorothy Diffenderfer

Cemetery Location:  1.2 miles north of Menchville, Virginia, on Route #102, 
                    thence 1 mile west on Young’s private road.
                    City of Newport News, Virginia


DATE:

1873, date of oldest grave (marker).

OWNERS:

Young family, original and present. (1937)

DESCRIPTION:

The Young’s family graveyard is a beautifully kept spot, situated on a hill 
among ancient cedars and lovely dogwood and red-bud trees.  It is surrounded by 
an iron fence, which has large clumps of narcissi growing at the base.  There 
is a bed of tulips.  Buttercups grow everywhere.  There is a large bush of 
spires, also three boxwoods.

There are five monuments in the cemetery.  Two of the graves are marked with 
boxwood.  Three are covered with ivy.  This is a lovely spot.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

The following inscriptions were copied from the tombstones:


Ann Benson Green
Wife of William G. Young
Born June 18, 1832
Died April 3, 1893
A good Woman


William Garrow Young
born March 21, 1814
Died March 26, 1893


Durog Hughes Jones
February 21, 1842
July 15, 1896


Mary Green
His Wife
August 2, 1844
March 22, 1927


John Alden Green
1842 – 1873



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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